This text is about the use of facebook and whether it is the cause of college students getting lower grades or not. The author conducts a survey of 219 college students at Ohio state in order to figure out if facebook causes students to get lower grades. In his study he reported that students who use facebook have a GPA of about a 3.0 to a 3.5 and students who do not use facebook have a GPA of about a 3.5 to a 4.0. · This article helps prove my point that facebook is a distraction for students. Even though the survey conducted was not completely accurate it shows that students who use facebook are getting a lower GPA. I will use questions in my survey to the class asking them how many hours a week they spend on facebook as well as how many hours a week they spend on studying, and what their overall GPA was last semester. · The text fully supports my research as I stated earlier and hopefully the survey that I conduct in class will follow the same
pattern as the survey conducted in the article
Hannah Dobb http://likemom.com/articles/53.htmlhttp://likemom.com/articles/53.htmlhttp://www.diigo.com/09u0q
Summary: This article was more of a list. It has clues to look for when you suspect your spouse to be cheating. Examples of this would be when they spend excess time online, hide their online passwords from you, and delete their history, exit the page really fast when you come near, etc. and after the article there was a place for people to write comments or responses. Some of the responses were along the lines of people whose spouses have cheated, the cheaters themselves, or just comments from the outside from people who have no experience with online affairs.
Response: Although this does not really qualify as an article, these are interesting. They are all just common sense, but scary to think that people really need to pay attention to the points stated. Affairs at all are very painful and online affairs are no different. Maybe if more people saw this sooner, they could look for the signs before real damage was done and somehow find a way to fix whatever is wrong in the relationship.
Usefulness: when I use my questions from my primary research, I plan to ask some of them to people who use sites that are only for people looking for affairs. So I know these people are cheating and I want to know why. Some sites I plant to sign up for are: www.discreetadventures.com/, ashleymadison.com/, and maybe other free sites if I can find reliable looking ones. This is so sad, but interesting at the same time that plan to look into it more. And too look into reasons behind why people have affairs in the first place. And is there a difference behind the reasons of online affairs? A good article for reasons why: http://ezinearticles.com/?Why-Do-Married-People-Cheat?&id=897406 And another with almost a completely opposite view: http://www.realsexedfacts.com/why-people-cheat.html
Emily Hinsch
This article is discussing the downside of all this new technology our world has created. Between instant messaging e-mailing and text messaging technology has a huge impact on our daily lives. This article begins with a lady sitting at work and all the things she has to keep track of during her day. She is constantly communicating with people through work and people in her social life. We rarely ever get a moment of peace and quiet to just read and relax. We are always connected with people all over the world. This article also states that since our generation is always doing things regarding technology we have a shorter attention span. It also states that we have an information overload during our days. I agree with this article to a certain extent because we are always connected to each other but on the other hand we could always turn off our technological devices and disconnect ourselves. Technology is indeed a huge part of our daily lives.
Hannah Dobb http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/internet/18shortcuts.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&ref=technology
Summary: This article had lots of different information and was from an unbiased source. It discussed the science of online dating. Science meaning how people are matched to others on the site. There is even a site that uses DNA to make matches. The companies compete to get as many people to use their sites as possible. And a lot of that competition is through advertisement that is often false. Companies play up their usefulness more than they can prove. It also discusses some of the prices for some sites. Another point it goes into is the happiness of couples who met online compared to those who met in the real world.
Response: This article raised questions for me about how many people actually find successful relationships through online means. And not just relationships that are purely online, but the kind that turn into marriages and love off line. These online sites seem to benefit themselves much, much more than they benefit the users of them.
Usefulness: The different topics within the article brought up a lot of questions that I will further look into and make points of. The “science” of online dating it brought up gave me insight into how the sites work. http://www.diigo.com/09if7 http://www.diigo.com/09if8
Summary: The author in this article tells you in a short article what he believes chat roulette is in his opinion. The author discusses how he believes the site is more of a dating site for people who are lonely and are looking for a stranger to talk to. He makes a point to let you know that he believes the site to be trashy. He provides a quote on how there are boys on there looking for girls there age to see and how the site is full of men looking for women.
Response: In my opinion I agree with what the author is saying. A question I am having is why are people putting themselves out on this site? People realize the dangers of being exposed to something they may not want to see, but they are willing to take the risk. In my opinion this shows how people are willing to connect with anyone to get that urge of walking on the other side of the line.
Usefulness: This article is useful in certain aspects. The article is not very long and does not go into the site in as much detail as one may want. I feel like to understand this new upcoming website you must find an article that really examines the people and there interests for going on the site.
The article that I chose to is called social media’s impact on your “real life” relationships. This author first explains that we can reach countless amounts of people with little effort through the internet using facebook twitter ect. It is in fact easier to stay in contact with people and feel that we are never alone but this is only through technology and not real life interactions. The author then explains that no matter how big our online network is we shouldn’t lose sight of our offline relationships. Social media such as texting and IMing also has an impact on real life relationships, it can cause jealousy or suspicions in our dating relationships. So we are advised to put down our cell phones and step away from our computers and spend time with the people who need it most. I agree with this article and the fact that social media is beginning to take over our lives. There is not one second that I am without my cell phone, and many young kids are caught up with texting and always in contact with their friends and spending less time with their families. Even though this is a wonderful thing that is developing we should balance our time more between real life and social media.
Hannah Dobb http://www.ezilon.com/articles/articles/6455/1/Do-Online-Relationships-Work%3F http://www.diigo.com/09d9k The article I chose to use for my inquiry is called, “Do Online Relationships Work?” by Tracy Grace. In the article she discusses mostly the positives of online relationships. She explains that this is a new way of dating for this generation and it is good for people who are shy in social situations that are face to face, but who are good with words. The dynamics of an online relationship is explained in how it would develop. The stages were from messaging, to instant messaging, to maybe talking on the phone, to eventually meeting in person and having an actual relationship. Another positive given is that online relationships can be over great distances and still function, because it is all electronic so location is unimportant. This was summed up to the possibility of being like a fairy tale in the end.
This article was not what I was expecting. I have never heard online dating praised so highly and considered so normal. It makes online relationships seem more enjoyable and rewarding than being in a traditional face to face relationship. This is very interesting to me and makes me think that more people must participate in these types than I assumed. But I still personally doubt if these online affiliations are as satisfying as this particular writing says and how happy people who participate in online dating really are.
This will support my research in giving a positive view of online dating. It has a basic outline of how someone who seems to have used it had success with one. This is a broad topic but this article is a good start.
Is Technology Destroying Our Relationships?
Response by Nicholas Cryer Summary: In this article, Maven talks about how our use of different forms of technology such as cell phones, Facebook, and video games are numbing our society and removing out ability to interact with other human beings and that this addiction we have with technology could lead to problems. Response: Though I like Facebook and being able to socialize online, I feel as though our society has taken it to far. Some people will communicate more on the internet than in real life! I feel that Maven has a very good idea of how society at this point in time uses their electronic devices and how, though it may not be a problem now, could easily escalate out of control. Looking in the past how only a few years ago people would rarely text message each other, now most kids will text message someone rather than call them. If you decide to stay home on your computer over going out to be with friends you have a problem. Not only is it gross to think that you are being more "social" online than in person but socializing is like a skill. Some people have bad social skills, people don’t enjoy their company that much. I feel that if we stay behind our screens all day we will eventually loose the ability to talk in person. Usefulness: This Article has voiced many of the concerns that I have with how much people these days can’t put down their electronic devices. Its nice to see another person who would get annoyed if someone was texting someone else while you were talking to them.
Relationship Blog “Is Technology Destroying Our Relationships?” by Advice Maven
<http://www.diigo.com/09dk6 >
Nicholas Cryer Though our technology may be making us more able to connect to each other faster and more efficiently but we seem to overlook the fat that our technological media is drawing us closer together but at the same time pulling us farther apart. I am a big believer in the connections you make between people and how there is an exchange of energy when you communicate with someone face to face. asking someone on a date by email or text message may appear to be easier because your nervous, but if you don’t have the balls to ask someone face to face then how can you expect them to respect you? I know that there is the stereotype of people who just sit at home all day on their computers and don’t talk to people, just on the internet, and some people think that they will never become like that. but i feel that where our society is at now is just the beginning stages of being stuck behind a screen and loosing all our face-to-face communication. perhaps, as the writer of this article suggests, our future generations will become a robotic society!
· Emily Hinsch
This text is about the use of facebook and whether it is the cause of college students getting lower grades or not. The author conducts a survey of 219 college students at Ohio state in order to figure out if facebook causes students to get lower grades. In his study he reported that students who use facebook have a GPA of about a 3.0 to a 3.5 and students who do not use facebook have a GPA of about a 3.5 to a 4.0.
· This article helps prove my point that facebook is a distraction for students. Even though the survey conducted was not completely accurate it shows that students who use facebook are getting a lower GPA. I will use questions in my survey to the class asking them how many hours a week they spend on facebook as well as how many hours a week they spend on studying, and what their overall GPA was last semester.
· The text fully supports my research as I stated earlier and hopefully the survey that I conduct in class will follow the same
pattern as the survey conducted in the article
http://www.diigo.com/09ux9
Hannah Dobb
http://likemom.com/articles/53.htmlhttp://likemom.com/articles/53.htmlhttp://www.diigo.com/09u0q
Summary: This article was more of a list. It has clues to look for when you suspect your spouse to be cheating. Examples of this would be when they spend excess time online, hide their online passwords from you, and delete their history, exit the page really fast when you come near, etc. and after the article there was a place for people to write comments or responses. Some of the responses were along the lines of people whose spouses have cheated, the cheaters themselves, or just comments from the outside from people who have no experience with online affairs.
Response: Although this does not really qualify as an article, these are interesting. They are all just common sense, but scary to think that people really need to pay attention to the points stated. Affairs at all are very painful and online affairs are no different. Maybe if more people saw this sooner, they could look for the signs before real damage was done and somehow find a way to fix whatever is wrong in the relationship.
Usefulness: when I use my questions from my primary research, I plan to ask some of them to people who use sites that are only for people looking for affairs. So I know these people are cheating and I want to know why. Some sites I plant to sign up for are: www.discreetadventures.com/, ashleymadison.com/, and maybe other free sites if I can find reliable looking ones. This is so sad, but interesting at the same time that plan to look into it more. And too look into reasons behind why people have affairs in the first place. And is there a difference behind the reasons of online affairs?
A good article for reasons why:
http://ezinearticles.com/?Why-Do-Married-People-Cheat?&id=897406
And another with almost a completely opposite view:
http://www.realsexedfacts.com/why-people-cheat.html
Emily Hinsch
This article is discussing the downside of all this new technology our world has created. Between instant messaging e-mailing and text messaging technology has a huge impact on our daily lives. This article begins with a lady sitting at work and all the things she has to keep track of during her day. She is constantly communicating with people through work and people in her social life. We rarely ever get a moment of peace and quiet to just read and relax. We are always connected with people all over the world. This article also states that since our generation is always doing things regarding technology we have a shorter attention span. It also states that we have an information overload during our days. I agree with this article to a certain extent because we are always connected to each other but on the other hand we could always turn off our technological devices and disconnect ourselves. Technology is indeed a huge part of our daily lives.
http://www.diigo.com/09j6g
Hannah Dobb
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/internet/18shortcuts.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&ref=technology
Summary: This article had lots of different information and was from an unbiased source. It discussed the science of online dating. Science meaning how people are matched to others on the site. There is even a site that uses DNA to make matches. The companies compete to get as many people to use their sites as possible. And a lot of that competition is through advertisement that is often false. Companies play up their usefulness more than they can prove. It also discusses some of the prices for some sites. Another point it goes into is the happiness of couples who met online compared to those who met in the real world.
Response: This article raised questions for me about how many people actually find successful relationships through online means. And not just relationships that are purely online, but the kind that turn into marriages and love off line. These online sites seem to benefit themselves much, much more than they benefit the users of them.
Usefulness: The different topics within the article brought up a lot of questions that I will further look into and make points of. The “science” of online dating it brought up gave me insight into how the sites work.
http://www.diigo.com/09if7
http://www.diigo.com/09if8
Alex Rincon
http://www.lawrence.com/news/2010/feb/03/best-chat-roulette/
Summary: The author in this article tells you in a short article what he believes chat roulette is in his opinion. The author discusses how he believes the site is more of a dating site for people who are lonely and are looking for a stranger to talk to. He makes a point to let you know that he believes the site to be trashy. He provides a quote on how there are boys on there looking for girls there age to see and how the site is full of men looking for women.
Response: In my opinion I agree with what the author is saying. A question I am having is why are people putting themselves out on this site? People realize the dangers of being exposed to something they may not want to see, but they are willing to take the risk. In my opinion this shows how people are willing to connect with anyone to get that urge of walking on the other side of the line.
Usefulness: This article is useful in certain aspects. The article is not very long and does not go into the site in as much detail as one may want. I feel like to understand this new upcoming website you must find an article that really examines the people and there interests for going on the site.
http://www.diigo.com/09idd
Emily Hinsch
http://blog.lehighvalleylive.com/social-media/2009/10/social_medias_impact_on_your_real_life_relationships.html
http://www.diigo.com/09iz7
The article that I chose to is called social media’s impact on your “real life” relationships. This author first explains that we can reach countless amounts of people with little effort through the internet using facebook twitter ect. It is in fact easier to stay in contact with people and feel that we are never alone but this is only through technology and not real life interactions. The author then explains that no matter how big our online network is we shouldn’t lose sight of our offline relationships. Social media such as texting and IMing also has an impact on real life relationships, it can cause jealousy or suspicions in our dating relationships. So we are advised to put down our cell phones and step away from our computers and spend time with the people who need it most. I agree with this article and the fact that social media is beginning to take over our lives. There is not one second that I am without my cell phone, and many young kids are caught up with texting and always in contact with their friends and spending less time with their families. Even though this is a wonderful thing that is developing we should balance our time more between real life and social media.
Hannah Dobb
http://www.ezilon.com/articles/articles/6455/1/Do-Online-Relationships-Work%3F
http://www.diigo.com/09d9k
The article I chose to use for my inquiry is called, “Do Online Relationships Work?” by Tracy Grace. In the article she discusses mostly the positives of online relationships. She explains that this is a new way of dating for this generation and it is good for people who are shy in social situations that are face to face, but who are good with words. The dynamics of an online relationship is explained in how it would develop. The stages were from messaging, to instant messaging, to maybe talking on the phone, to eventually meeting in person and having an actual relationship. Another positive given is that online relationships can be over great distances and still function, because it is all electronic so location is unimportant. This was summed up to the possibility of being like a fairy tale in the end.
This article was not what I was expecting. I have never heard online dating praised so highly and considered so normal. It makes online relationships seem more enjoyable and rewarding than being in a traditional face to face relationship. This is very interesting to me and makes me think that more people must participate in these types than I assumed. But I still personally doubt if these online affiliations are as satisfying as this particular writing says and how happy people who participate in online dating really are.
This will support my research in giving a positive view of online dating. It has a basic outline of how someone who seems to have used it had success with one. This is a broad topic but this article is a good start.
Is Technology Destroying Our Relationships?
Response by Nicholas Cryer
Summary: In this article, Maven talks about how our use of different forms of technology such as cell phones, Facebook, and video games are numbing our society and removing out ability to interact with other human beings and that this addiction we have with technology could lead to problems.
Response: Though I like Facebook and being able to socialize online, I feel as though our society has taken it to far. Some people will communicate more on the internet than in real life! I feel that Maven has a very good idea of how society at this point in time uses their electronic devices and how, though it may not be a problem now, could easily escalate out of control. Looking in the past how only a few years ago people would rarely text message each other, now most kids will text message someone rather than call them. If you decide to stay home on your computer over going out to be with friends you have a problem. Not only is it gross to think that you are being more "social" online than in person but socializing is like a skill. Some people have bad social skills, people don’t enjoy their company that much. I feel that if we stay behind our screens all day we will eventually loose the ability to talk in person.
Usefulness: This Article has voiced many of the concerns that I have with how much people these days can’t put down their electronic devices. Its nice to see another person who would get annoyed if someone was texting someone else while you were talking to them.
Relationship Blog “Is Technology Destroying Our Relationships?” by Advice Maven
<http://www.diigo.com/09dk6 >
Nicholas Cryer
Though our technology may be making us more able to connect to each other faster and more efficiently but we seem to overlook the fat that our technological media is drawing us closer together but at the same time pulling us farther apart. I am a big believer in the connections you make between people and how there is an exchange of energy when you communicate with someone face to face. asking someone on a date by email or text message may appear to be easier because your nervous, but if you don’t have the balls to ask someone face to face then how can you expect them to respect you? I know that there is the stereotype of people who just sit at home all day on their computers and don’t talk to people, just on the internet, and some people think that they will never become like that. but i feel that where our society is at now is just the beginning stages of being stuck behind a screen and loosing all our face-to-face communication. perhaps, as the writer of this article suggests, our future generations will become a robotic society!
http://www.diigo.com/09igz